A Murder in Stoker Hills · Book One
Welcome to Mayhap, Indiana—where the coffee is strong, the cats know too much, and even the quietest streets keep secrets.
Coming soon · Publication details to follow
Mystery lives in the half-light.
Atmospheric mysteries
Small towns with long memories
Cats who notice everything
The Mayhap mysteries
Warm-hearted mysteries with a noir edge, set in a town where every porch light casts a very long shadow.
View full size ↗A Murder in Stoker Hills
The first mystery begins under a watchful moon.
A polished cozy-noir mystery set in Mayhap, Indiana. Full jacket copy, an excerpt, publication details, and purchase links will be added as the book approaches release.
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Every road out of Mayhap leads somewhere.
Book two follows the light beyond town and finds another mystery waiting. Story details, an excerpt, and publication information are coming soon.
Follow the seriesPopulation: complicated
It looks like the sort of Indiana town where nothing ever happens. The cats would tell you otherwise.
Mayhap is the heart of the series: a place of old houses, familiar faces, strange histories, and small kindnesses. This corner of the site will grow into maps, characters, landmarks, timelines, and other dispatches from town.
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View full size ↗Cy Wyss · writer, technologist, cat observer
About the author
I’m Cy Wyss, a mystery writer and technologist with a fondness for small towns, black cats, strong coffee, and happy endings earned the hard way.
My stories live where cozy warmth meets noir atmosphere—places where people look after one another, even when they are keeping secrets.
Say helloAn open creative practice
I use digital and AI tools as thoughtful collaborators—for brainstorming, critique, continuity, revision, coding, and experimentation. The creative direction, choices, and final words remain mine.
A detailed process page and a start-to-finish case study are in development. I’ll show the decisions, not just the tools.
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Essays on Mayhap, mystery craft, research, and the curious machinery behind the stories.
She’s an investigative reporter by day, a black cat by night, and the singular heroine of the Eyeshine universe. But who is she, really?
Read the postA roundup of release news, recent dispatches, and the latest entirely reliable headlines from around Mayhap.
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Reader notes, event invitations, media inquiries, and messages from fellow cat observers are all welcome.